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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Payton Byrd wrote:   
   >   
   > "Macintosh Dragon"  wrote in message news:screw   
   E54C98.17155122102007@host64-209-dynamic.0-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it...   
   >> In article <298Ti.2916$_64.2467@trnddc02>,   
   >> "Sam Gillett"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Keep in mind that the personal computer market was much more   
   >>> fragmented in the 1980's than it is today.  Two major segments were the   
   home   
   >>> computer segment, which was dominated by Commodore and Atari, and the   
   >>> business computer segment where there were several CP/M machines which were   
   >>> quickly displaced by the IBM PC/XT and the various clones.  And then there   
   >>> was Apple whic sort of stradled the line between the home and small   
   business   
   >>> market.   
   >> True, but honestly...wasn't it great!  I LOVED all the different types   
   >> of computers back then.  I think that it's stupid to give a crap about   
   >> the "winner" or "loser" of the 80's home computers.  Man, I would love   
   >> to see a return to the times of multiple formats, multiple machines,   
   >> multiple operating systems.  To me, that was the best time in the home   
   >> computing era, seeing what the newest weird system was coming out with.   
   >> Truly, the present with the Windows/Macintosh/Linux line up is pretty   
   >> damn boring in comparison....second verse same as the first...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Douglas   
   >>   
   >> :)   
   >   
   > There is diversity, and then there is market confusion.  In the 80's, the   
   home computer market was definitely confused until the C64 basically took the   
   entire market by the throat and bent it to its will.  By the end of the 80's   
   it was clear the only    
   three viable platforms were MS-DOS/Windows, Macintosh and Amiga.  It's a damn   
   shame that LBM and Irving Gould were in charge of C= instead of Jack Tramiel   
   by the time the Amiga came around.   
      
   The Amiga probably wouldn't have a Commodore badge if Jack Tramiel was   
   still running Commodore at that time.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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